7th Fleet in the Pacific was larger than all the other navies in the world combined. By the time of the 1945 surrender, Japan had no carriers (actually, no fleet) and the U.S. How badly were the Japanese eventually overmatched? Well, at the start of hostilities, Japan had 10 aircraft carriers the U.S. The savaging of the Pacific Fleet hurt him deeply. Franklin Delano Roosevelt also misjudged Japan’s intentions, although there is no evidence he withheld information to spark a war. Nor does he absolve the Americans for underestimating (mostly on racial grounds) Japanese military prowess and boldness. The hubris of brilliant Japanese military men like Yamamoto, Fuchida, and Genda was startling. He does not absolve the Japanese for being too shortsighted to understand they could never win a war against the United States, especially one begun with a stab in the back to rival all stabs in the back. 7, 1941, attack, giving the motives and actions of both the Japanese and American sides. Twomey concentrates on the days leading up to the Dec. Countdown is an excellent addition to the Pearl Harbor canon, and provides new insight to a subject that I thought I knew everything about. Which brings me to Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attackby Steve Twomey, an accomplished newspaper journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing while at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Navy and many of its sailors was, ahem, intimate. After all, their relationship with the U.S.
Later, of course, I wised up, and also understood why the ladies of the night were so anxious to help.
I was so young I didn’t know what a prostitute was, and was rather mystified why the blood of such patriotic women might be thought unsuitable for transfusion. I particularly remember one passage in Day of Infamy, where Lord described how prostitutes in Honolulu, who were told they could not give blood for wounded sailors, nevertheless volunteered to help in other ways. Lord, who also wrote A Night to Rememberabout the sinking of the Titanic, was a consummate storyteller and brought both tragedies to life. I have been fascinated by the Pearl Harbor attack ever since I read Day of Infamyby Walter Lord as a child.
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